Re: cp (coreutils) 5.2.1 Corrupts Binary File

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar  2 03:52, Vincent Rowley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We found that cp corrupts binary files which is quite embarrassing...
> 
> peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> cp notepad.exe notepad_copy.exe
> peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> diff notepad.exe notepad_copy.exe
> Files notepad.exe and notepad_copy.exe differ
> 
> Please find attached the output of cygcheck -s -v -r .
> 
> Is anyone had this issue? Is there any workaround?

I just tried it on binmode and textmode mounts and in all combinations
from binmode to textmoe and vice versa.  In no case I could reproduce
your above observation.

Are you sure you ran Cygwin's cp and diff?


Corinna

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